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[Plasmodium falciparum] [Plasmodium malariae] [Plasmodium ovale] [Plasmodium vivax]

Plasmodium falciparum: Schizonts

Smears from patients:

Schizonts are seldom seen in peripheral blood.  Mature schizonts have 8 to 24 small merozoites; dark pigment, clumped in one mass.

A	B

A: Immature schizont in a thin blood smear.
B: Mature schizont.

C	D

C, D: Ruptured schizonts in a thin blood smear.